Published: 5/1/12Revising, Refreshing, Evolving Battlefield InterpretationBy: Craig SwainCategory: The Front Line As a youngster, I visited Shiloh National Military Park on a number of occasions. Given my fondness for artillery, it should be no surprise that the “Ruggles Battery” tour stop...
Published: 4/30/12The Dying Confederate’s Last WordsBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line The following poem from the Civil War Song Sheets collection highlights the sacrifice made by individual Civil War soldiers. It’s entitled, “The Dying Confederate’s Last Words.” Dear comrades on my...
Published: 4/27/12Bowling with BeauregardBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good afternoon! Here’s a little Friday Funny to celebrate the end of the work week. Published in the April 26, 1862 edition of Harper’s Weekly, this Justin Howard cartoon celebrates...
Published: 4/26/12Was Confederate Conscription an Instrument of Social Justice?By: Andy HallCategory: The Front Line Last week brought the sesquicentennial of the first Confederate Conscription Act. The draft would later become a particularly divisive element in the Confederacy (as it also became in the North),...
Published: 4/26/12Introducing “Iron Men Afloat” – A New Series on the Civil War NavyBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! I am sure many of you noticed that yesterday we posted a two-part series on the fall of New Orleans (April 25th, 1862). Part 1: “The Men and...
Published: 4/25/12LOEWEN & SEBESTA (eds.): The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader (2010)By: Jon D. BohlandCategory: Book Reviews The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The Great Truth about the Lost Cause edited by James Loewen and Edward Sebesta. The University Press of Mississippi, 2010. Paper, ISBN: 1604732199. $25.00. The great...
Published: 4/25/12FOLLETT, FONER, JOHNSON (eds.): Slavery’s Ghost (2011)By: Joshua D. RothmanCategory: Book Reviews Slavery’s Ghost: The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation edited by Richard Follett, Eric Foner, and Walter Johnson. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1421402351. $45.00. A...
Published: 4/25/12The Surrender of New Orleans Part 1: The Men and The SkirmishBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Today marks the sesquicentennial of the fall of New Orleans (April 25, 1862). As such, The Civil War Monitor is commemorating this event with a two-part series on the surrender....
Published: 4/25/12The Surrender of New Orleans Part 2: The Machines and TechnologyBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line As you know, today—April 25th—marks the 150th anniversary of the fall of New Orleans. Part 2 of our tribute to the surrender of the Crescent City is located on the...
Published: 4/18/12DELBLANCO: The Abolitionist Imagination (2012)By: Michael FellmanCategory: Book Reviews The Abolitionist Imagination (The Alexis De Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics) by Andrew Delblanco. Harvard University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0674064445. $24.95. This call and response volume grew from the Alexis...